Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
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Patent number: 12033283Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator projects or displays a virtual space image on a screen installed at a position distant from a user in a real space and not integrally moving with the user. More specifically, the VR simulator acquires a real user position being a position of the user's head in the real space. The VR simulator acquires a virtual user position being a position in a virtual space corresponding to the real user position. Then, the VR simulator acquires the virtual space image by imaging the virtual space by using a camera placed at the virtual user position in the virtual space, based on virtual space configuration information indicating a configuration of the virtual space. Here, the VR simulator performs adjusts a focal length of the camera such that perspective corresponding to a distance between the real user position and the screen is cancelled.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Wataru Kaku
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Patent number: 12032822Abstract: A method of controlling a portable device including first and second touch screens is provided. The method includes displaying first information related to a first application on the first touch screen and displaying second information related to the first application on the second touch screen; receiving a first user input moving to the first touch screen on the second touch screen; and replacing the first information and the second information with a third information and a fourth information related to the first application on the first and second touch screens, in response to receiving the first user input, wherein each of the third information and the fourth information is displayed while being slidden from the second touch screen to the first touch screen and the third information is displayed over a boundary between the first and second screens during the sliding of the third and fourth information.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Joon-Kyu Seo, Kyung-A Kang, Ji-Yeon Kwak, Hyun-Jin Kim, Hyun-Jung Song, Sung-Sik Yoo, Ju-Youn Lee, Dong-Seok Ryu, Min-Kyu Park
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Patent number: 12033272Abstract: Delivering pre-rendered holographic content over a network is disclosed. A first camera view segment of a plurality of camera view segments that compose a holographic video is selected. Each camera view segment corresponds to a different camera view perspective of a scene and includes rendered holographic content that depicts a plurality of concurrent different viewer perspectives of the scene. The first camera view segment is streamed toward a holographic display for presentation of the first camera view segment on the holographic display.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Dhananjay Lal, Andrew Ip, Matthew Ringenberg, Dell Wolfensparger, Omar Alami
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Patent number: 12008707Abstract: A system for simulating objects in a three dimensional virtual space, comprising a host computing node coupled to a network, padding spheres defined in the virtual space, one padding sphere fully encasing each cube in an octree; a plurality of objects, each object tracked for position in the virtual space. A visibility sphere associated with each object is provided, and at least one display, displaying objects in the virtual space. One of the objects becoming a target object, a search determines objects to be rendered in the display, identifying all padding spheres overlapped at least partially by the visibility sphere of the target object as candidate padding spheres, and identifying objects within or overlapping the candidate padding spheres, determining a visibility ratio for each object of maximum dimension of the object divided by distance from the target object, any object having a visibility to be rendered in the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Inventor: David Todd Kaplan
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Patent number: 12004871Abstract: Described are systems and methods directed to a body change journey that utilizes collected two-dimensional (ā2Dā) body images of a body of a user, generation and presentation of a personalized three-dimensional (ā3Dā) body model of the body of the user based on those 2D body images, the generation and presentation of different predicted personalized 3D body models of the body of the user at different body measurements (e.g., different body fat percentages, different muscle mass amounts, different body weights, etc.), and the generation of a body change journey that guides the user from their current body model to a selected target body model that is represented by a target personalized 3D body model of the body of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cyrus Fazeli, Apoorv Chaudhri, Ambrish Tyagi, Prakash Ramu, Amit Kumar Agrawal
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Patent number: 12008152Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media that determines distances for mixed reality interaction, where the methods include determining a first position of a point of a surface and rendering a virtual reality (VR) interactive item comprising a VR interactive control. The methods further include tracking a control indicator controlled by the user by determining a first plurality of positions of the control indicator and activating the VR interactive control in response to detecting the control indicator controlled by the user transgressing a first threshold distance from the VR interactive control. The methods further include determining a closest position of the first plurality of positions to the point based on the first position, determining the point of the surface to have a second position based on the determined closest position plus a constant for the control indicator, and associating a second threshold with the point of the surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Benjamin Lucas
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Patent number: 12002408Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a display image shift controller. The display panel includes a display area in which a display image is displayed and a shift area located within the display area. The display image shift controller generates a route shift signal, where a reference point of the display image is shifted in the shift area based on the route shift signal. The route shift signal includes first and second routes corresponding to a path through which the reference point of the display image is shifted. The first route includes a first sub-route and a second sub-route. The second route includes a third sub-route and a fourth sub-route. The first, second, third, and fourth sub-routes are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Daye Moon, Bonggyun Kang, Kyoungho Lim, Heesook Park
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Patent number: 12002158Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system that make it possible to grasp a state of a certain region. An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a three-dimensional model generator, and a block generator. The image acquisition section acquires image information that includes image data and position information that are associated with each other, the position information being information regarding a position at which the image data is acquired. The three-dimensional model generator generates a three-dimensional model using the image information. The block generator generates a new block that is to be coupled to a blockchain that is formed by blocks being coupled, each block recording therein the image information used to generate the three-dimensional model.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Takaaki Kato
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Patent number: 11995785Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing a standardized position for anatomic structural data (ASD) of a patient scan, in particular as a basis for individually fitting an orthosis or prosthesis to a first patient. The method comprises the steps of receiving anatomic structural data (ASD) of a body part of the first patient, receiving and/or selecting template structural data (TSD) corresponding to the body part and adapting the orientation and/or the pose of the anatomic structural data (ASD) using the armature of the template structural data (TSD). Further, the invention refers to a computer-implemented method for providing standardized measurement on anatomic structural data (ASD) of a patient scan, a data processing system and a computer-readable medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Ottobock SE & Co. KGaAInventors: Khoi Lam, Max Thalmeier
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Patent number: 11991439Abstract: A method for dental treatment may include receiving photos of a patient's dentition, gathering treatment parameters for at treatment plan. The treatment parameters may represent attributes of the treatment plan selected by a doctor for the patient's dentition of a patient. The method may include generating, using the photos and the treatment parameters, one or more intelligent guidance rules to guide application of at least a portion of the treatment parameters to the patient's dentition, generating instructions to apply the intelligent patient guidance rules to the patient's dentition, and providing the instructions to the patient to apply the at least a portion of the treatment plan in accordance with the intelligent patient guidance rules.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Christopher E. Cramer, Rajiv Venkata, Leela Parvathaneni, Phillip Thomas Harris, Sravani Gurijala, Svetozar Hubenov, Sebastien Hareng, Guotu Li, Yun Gao, Chad Clayton Brown
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Patent number: 11989403Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including at least one processor, the at least one processor executing a first obtaining process for obtaining accessory equipment data transmitted from each of pieces of accessory equipment included in an accessory equipment group, a first converting process for converting the accessory equipment data, which has been obtained in the first obtaining process, into a particular format, and a first providing process for providing, to main equipment, the accessory equipment data whose format has been converted in the first converting process.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Nakazawa, Takahiro Naito, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Tomoyoshi Kawaguchi, Naoya Sogo
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Patent number: 11983833Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method of annotating an avatar representative of a human body with medical information associated with a patient, the method performed by a computer including a hardware processor, the method comprising: providing, by the hardware processor, the avatar; retrieving, by the hardware processor, electronic data from a blockchain, the electronic data describing the medical information; applying the electronic data, by the hardware processor, to one or more machine learning algorithms trained to associate the medical information with a body part from amongst a plurality of body parts of the human body; and annotating, by the hardware processor, the avatar with the medical information at a location of the associated body part.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HEALTH CONNECT GLOBAL LIMITEDInventor: Devan Moodley
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Patent number: 11983352Abstract: An MFR sensor array having a first supporting layer. The array has a second supporting layer. The array has a force sensing component disposed between the first and second supporting layers. The array has protrusions combined with the force supporting component, where there are only two supporting layers. When a force is applied to the second supporting layer, the force causes the second supporting layer to contact protrusions so the force is transmitted through the protrusions to the force supporting component and through the force supporting component. An MFR sensor array. A system for sensing. A method for sensing.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: Tactonic Technologies, LLC, New York UniversityInventors: Kenneth Perlin, Charles Hendee, Alex Grau
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Patent number: 11983812Abstract: A process for rendering objects includes detecting a first surface of an object oriented in a first position. A first image is captured with a camera and at least partially captures a first marker on the first surface. A prompt requests manipulation of the object into a second position to expose a second surface to the camera in response to detecting a missing image of a marker. A second image of the second surface is captured with the camera and at least partially captures a second marker on the second surface. The object is rendered as a virtual representation in a virtual environment in response to detecting the first marker in the first image and the second marker in the second image. The size of the virtual representation is estimated based on the detected size of at least one of the first marker and the second marker.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Jesus Flores Guerra, Eric Pleiman
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Patent number: 11983821Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a movable platform. The method may include obtaining a target object selection operation input by a user on an interaction interface, the interaction interface displaying a three-dimensional model of an operation area, the target object selection operation configured to determine a position of a target object in the operation area; determining a target orientation of the movable platform when the target object is operated based on an orientation of the three-dimensional model displayed on the interaction interface when the target object selection operation is obtained; and determining a target position of the movable platform when the movable platform performs operation on the target object based on the position of the target object, the target orientation, and an operation distance of the movable platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiabin Liang, Yi Tian, Yingying Li, Yamei Li
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Patent number: 11978161Abstract: The present invention relates to a 3D (three-dimensional) modelling method and system. The 3D modelling method comprises capturing a plurality of digital images of an object, producing respective point cloud for the object, interpreting the plurality of digital images and the point cloud of the object to obtain a data information associated with the object, and generating a 3D model of the object based on the plurality of digital images, the point cloud, and the data information.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NEW CHANGER TECH S.R.L.Inventor: Giovanni Righetti
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Patent number: 11977692Abstract: An augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) device pairs with a companion device to augment input interfaces associated with an AR/VR application at the AR/VR device. In implementations, an AR/VR device determines a portion of a markup file that corresponds to an AR/VR scene of a plurality of AR/VR scenes in an AR/VR environment, and communicates the portion of the markup file to the companion device to cause the companion device to configure a companion user interface associated with initiating an action as part of the AR/VR scene. In response to receiving user input via the companion user interface, the companion device communicates the action to the AR/VR device to initiate the action. The AR/VR device receives input data from the companion device, and initiates the action for the AR/VR scene.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Joshua Reino Timonen, Andrew Chalkley
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Patent number: 11977714Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of provisioning a collaborative virtual experience to two or more users, in accordance with some embodiments. The method may include transmitting an interactive 3D model data to one or more follower user devices associated with one or more followers. Further, the method may include receiving one or more follower state data from the one or more follower user devices. Further, the method may include generating a collaborative view data based on the interactive 3D model data and the one or more follower state data. Further, the method may include transmitting the collaborative view data to a leader user device operated by a leader associated with the one or more followers. Further, the leader user device may be configured for presenting the collaborative view data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SY Interiors Pvt. Ltd.Inventors: Sunder Jagannathan, Vivek Agarwal, Hitesh Singla, Piyush Bothra
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Patent number: 11971754Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to a flexible overlapping display. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a processor to process data for the mobile device, a bendable and foldable display screen, one or more device sensors to sense an orientation of the mobile device, and one or more display sensors to sense a current arrangement of the display screen. The processor is to identify one or more portions of the display screen that are visible to a user based at least in part on data from the one or more device sensors and the one or more display sensors.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Guy M. Therien, David W. Browning, Joshua L. Zuniga
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Patent number: 11967086Abstract: A method for trajectory generation based on player tracking is described herein. The method includes determining a temporal association for a first player in a captured field of view and determining a spatial association for the first player. The method also includes deriving a global player identification based on the temporal association and the spatial association and generating a trajectory based on the global player identification.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yikai Fang, Qiang Li, Wenlong Li, Chenning Liu, Chen Ling, Hongzhi Tao, Yumeng Wang, Hang Zheng